All of our dignity consists in thought. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morality. — Blaise Pascal Character Copy Share Image
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“By space the universe encompasses me and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.” — Blaise Pascal Atoms Copy Share Image
Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live… — Blaise Pascal Disguise Copy Share Image
Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives. — Blaise Pascal Christ Copy Share Image
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. — Blaise Pascal Falsehood Copy Share Image
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. — Blaise Pascal Curiosity Copy Share Image
“Finally, let them recognise that there are two kinds of people one can call reasonable; those who serve God with all their… — Blaise Pascal Christianity Copy Share Image
If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't… — Blaise Pascal Comparison Copy Share Image
Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by… — Blaise Pascal Baseness Copy Share Image
It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in… — Blaise Pascal Blindness Copy Share Image
La chose la plus importante a' toute la vie est le choix du me tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important… — Blaise Pascal Career Copy Share Image
The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also… — Blaise Pascal Crime Copy Share Image
All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more… — Blaise Pascal Actor Copy Share Image
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal Evil Copy Share Image
“Ecclesiastes shows that man without God is in total ignorance and inevitable misery.” — Blaise Pascal Ecclesiastes Copy Share Image
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. — Blaise Pascal Friend Copy Share Image
“Those who have known God without knowing their own wretchedness have not glorified him but themselves.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The two foundations; one inward, the other outward; grace, miracles; both supernatural.” — Blaise Pascal Foundations Copy Share Image
“It is natural for the mind to believe, and for the will to love; [47] so that, for want of true objects,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding. — Blaise Pascal Arrangements Copy Share Image
We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs. — Blaise Pascal Impact Copy Share Image
All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following… — Blaise Pascal Failure Copy Share Image
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exsists.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. — Blaise Pascal Approach Copy Share Image
“God wishes to move the will rather than the mind. Perfect clarity would help the mind and harm the will.” — Blaise Pascal Clarity Copy Share Image
Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves. — Blaise Pascal Christ Copy Share Image
The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but… — Blaise Pascal Authority Copy Share Image
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a… — Blaise Pascal Education Copy Share Image